The Sun. — London, England, 1864-04-26 00:00:00

• .4' 4 1 ,7 -**)% . 'v. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containinz the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, pan be iaad Every Evening of G. ft. GLI4:NIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. Established 1837. BRITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY 1, Princes-street, Bank, London. Empowered by; Special Act of Parliament, 4 Viet. cap. 9. Every description of Life Assurance business transacted. ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary. BONNET'S SILKS a LYON. --Every Article of commerce takes its title either from the inventor or manufacturer, and the more perfect the production the greater is the credit which attaches to the originator. BONNErs SILKS are said to be incapable of identifica tion in England ; but the fallacy of such an assertion is ex posed by the very trade mark o f the firm, as exhibited by Messrs. JAY, of Regent-street. The following interwoven mark may be seen at the end ofeach piece :—" Manufacture de C. J. Bonnet et Cie., it Lyon e Injurieux." Wear guaranteed. IpOYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-garden. Yrom this time until the end of the season there will be four Opera nights in each week, viz., every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and t•atsrday. This Evening (Tnesday), April 26, will be performed (fer the second time these two years., Verdi's opera, UN BA LLO IN MASCHEBA. Amelia, Mdlle. Fried; Llrica, Mdlle. Giuseppini Tani, her second appearance in En,gland Oscar, Made. Marie Battu ; Renato. Signor Graziani ; Armando, Signor Tagbatico; Ang - ri, Signor Capponi ; Silvano, Signor Fal.ar ; 11 uiudice, Signor Rossi ; and 11 Duca, signor Mario. • Conductor, Mr. Costa. The incidental Divertissement wi 1 be supported by Mdlle B.llvoni and M. Desplaces. _ . Commence at half past Eight. Pit tickets, 7s. ; amphitheatre stalls, 10s. 6d., 75., and ss. ; amphitheatre. 2s. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had at the box-office under the portico of the theatre, which is open from ten to five, and at the principal musicsellers' and THEATRE ROYAL DRUR Y-L AN E. Managers, Messrs. Edmond Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, a Scene from TWELFTH NIGHT. Atter which, will be produced the Grand Stage Revival of Shaky era's Chronicle or Histo ri c al Pla y , entitled the First Part of d HENRY THE FOURTH. The cast will include impersonations by those eminc.tt artists, Mr. PH ELI'S, Mr. Walter Montgomery, Mr. Walter Lacy, Mr. Addison, Mr. Ryder, Mr. Robert Roxby, Mr. Barrett, Mr. E Phelps. Mr. Rayner, Mr. H. Vandenhoff, Mr. Belmore, Mr. Ellerton, Mr. Fitzjames, Mr. Neville ; Miss Edith Wynne, M as ltcse Leclercq, And Mrs. Edmund Fal coner, supported by all the Members of the Drury-lane Ccm pany. To conclude with AN APRIL FOOL. Mr. G. Belmore. THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.— Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Bucketone. To-Morrow Evening, THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Messrs. Howe, Chippendale, j3uckstone, Rogers, Compton, siren, &c. ; Mesdames Angel, Lindley, Fitzwilliam, Snow den, After which, the new Easter piece, entitled VENUS AND ADONIS. Messrs. Compton, Wm. Farren, Coe, &c. ; Mes dames Louise Keeley, Snowden. Nelly Power, Hill, Wright, Ro;ers, &c. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, DONNA DIANA. Messrs. Vining, Hermann Vezin, Nelson, D. Fisher, .&c.; Mesdames Hermanu ezin, C. Carson, dee Alter which, THE COMEDY OF ERRORS. The Two Dromios, by the Brothers Webb. To conclude with DRAWING-ROOMS, SECOND FLOOR, AND ATTICS. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with THE DAY AFTER THE FAIR: 'Messrs. Widdi combe, Garden, Moreland, and Miss E. Lavenu. Alter which, Mr. John Brougham's Original Comedy, PLAYING WITH FIRE. Messrs. J. Brough:irn, Emery, Widdicomb, J. G. Shore; Miss C. Leclercq, Miss Henrade, Miss F. Leclercq; Mrs. Winstanley. Doors open at 7, commence at halt-past. NLHI.- EW THEATRE-RU YAL, ADEP 804 , Proprigtor and Alanazer. M. B. Webster. . . THIS• EV EN ING,an apropos Sketch, SHAKE iPEARE'S HOUSE : Messrs. J. L. Toole, K. Phillips, Stephenson. Af er which, at 8, LEAH: Miss Bateman, supported by Messrs. A. Stirling, R. Phillips, Billingtun, Stuart, Eburne, Stephenson ; Miss H. Simms and Mrs. Billington. - - •- - To conclude with T fIE AREA. BELLE : essrs. J. L. Too:c, P. Bedford, it. !tomer, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. 11. Lewis. Commence at 7. IM[ISS BATEMAN.-L E A H.-THI EVENING and EVERY E VENIN G.—Miss Bateman will re-appear in her great impersonation of the Jewish ma.den uhtil further notice. In order o give due effect to tiis most remarkable success of the se,son, cal ire.) , new scenery by the celebrated artists Messrs. hanson and :one, Et,cl Thompson. New dr: ss?s and appo ntments have bern prepare for its production.—N. ts. In consequence of the fs , ,ressing and numerous applications as the Box-offix, ar tngements have now been made by which Seats m , y be ob tained a Fortnight in Advance. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, MY PRES &RYER. Atter which, the I' &cony Scene from ROMEO AND JULIET. Aii,ses Swanborongh and Wilton. Followed by the Fifth Act of MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Concluding with the Great Burlesque, ORPHEUS AND BURY LICE : Messrs. Honey, Wood, James Fenton ; ides dames Swanborough, Marie Wilton, Hughes, &o. Commence at 7. R OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Crowded with rank and fashion.— The greatly successful new Comedy every Evening. - First w,ek of a new bensation Farce.—Mr. J. Clarke. Amongst the artists engaged will be found the popular mines of Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews. Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. i. Clarke, Mr. Pi.ul Bedford, Mr. J. Uobinson, Mr, Ashley, 3lr. J. Johnstone ; Mrs. Char es Mathews, Miss Herbert, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. Stir;ing. EVERY EVENING, at 7. a Farce, with a new sensation, called SHAKE HANDS Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Ashley, Mr. Johnstone ; Miss Fanny Josephs and Miss Patti Josephs. • - At a quarter before 8, the successful new Comedy, by L. Buckingham, Esq., entitled 'DIE SILVER LININ(+ : Charles Mathews, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. Ashley. Mr. Montague; Mrs. Charles 31 athews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss A. Cottrell, and Mrs. Stirling. Alter whizh, at 10, COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charles Mathews. To conclude with UNDER THE ROSE : Mr. Ashley and BLsa A. Cottrell. Commence at 7. COALS. —The LILLESHAL L COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis' 26s. per ton. I Double.. 2ls. per ton. Top 255. „ Nuts. . . De, p W(.11 screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne nark-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, Paddington, W. Best Coke Terms cash. JOIIN SCOTT, Sole Agent. The Weather---Sun Office, April 26, 1864. THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock Barometer-9.69. Wind—N.V.; light breeze, and cloudy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THte DA7.—Monaing, 4h. 4 0m.—Afterhoon, sh. On;. fo-goanow.-Morninc,-, sh. 2ltn.—Afternoon, sh. 20m. LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1864. It has long been considered a desirable thing to assimilate, as far as possible, the method of admini stration throughout the three kingdoms. Ever since the famous union of the Parliaments, accomplished by aid of Lord CASTLEREAGH'S good offices, events have been tending more and more towards a com plete identity of government, and the removal of those local barriers which ancient custom or pre sent indifference may have placed in the way of that prompt and effective system of government 'which is what Englishmen chiefly desire to possess for themselves. Whatever difference of opinion there may be respecting the principles of political or social rule, there can be little divergence in the views of those who bet eke themselves to the amend went of the law, at ?.east in the objects which they are desirous of accomplishing. All must desire, as far as practicable., to possess a simple and compre hensive . dministrati on , encumbered as little es ma y be wi'th unneeestary courts and ocials, and ees little rendered Costly as it is possible for such a department to be. Bat however much unity there may be with regard to the objects to be attained, when it comes to tLe detalis there is always plenty of room for difference of opi n i on. Even if persons profess the same wishes there are alweys two ways of carrying them out, and accord gly the attempt now made to alter the admilistration of the Chancery Court in Ireland is Opposed by some and criticised by others. Mr. O'Hanteer's Bill is framed upon the recommenda tions of the several commissions which have been appciated on this subject. In 1851 it was recom mended that the system of masters in Ireland should be abolished, and that the equity system Bboulti be assimilated to that of this country; So late as 1862 another Royal Commission came to the unanimous conclusion that the assimilation of the equity jurisprudence of Ireland and England was THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 26, 1864. ?highly desirable. The principal features of Mr. O'HAGAN's measure are the appointment of chief clerks; the abolition of the three out of the pre. sent four Masters in Chancery ; the reform of process and procedure in the Irish Court of Chan cery; and some alteration in the matter of fees and stamps. There are, of course, a great num ber of miscellaneous details in the bill, but such are the chief outlinas. It is proposed to select the chief clerks from the profession of solicitors accord ing to English custom, or from the examiners in Chancery, whose offices would be abolished by the bill. The latter plan would, we should consider, be the fairest, since these gentlemen will lose their present appointments through no fault of their own. The entire existing staff will according to Mr. WHAGAN be still employed, end no new officers Ni ill be created, with the exception of the Vice- Chancellor and the chief clerks. It is in- tended that the Court of Equity shall conbist of the three principal authorities, of the Lord Chan cellor, Vice-Chancellor, and Master of the Rolls, with two chief clerks—one for the Vice-Chancellor, one for the Master of the Rolls. In this, as will be seen, the example of England has been followed, and it is proposed to assimilate the practice of the Irish Court to that of the English in all respects. It remains to be seen whether the measure will be passed in its entirety, or whether subsequent examination will not show some necessity for im provement or modification. Mr. WHITESIDE, no mean authority, objected to it on several grounds, and declared that it was in a great measure opposed to the beneficial changes introduced by Sir JOHN RoMILLY some years ago. The public will, pro bably, agree with the right hon. gentleman in thinking that ample time should be allowed for the consideration of a matter of such importance, affecting the:welfare and happiness of such count less numbers. Such measures cannot be hurried through Parliament without detriment to the objects which they profess lo serve, and since it is a case in which, however necessary an eventual reform may be, an immediate change cannot be urgent, we trust that full and fair time will be given for the consideration and consolidation of this important legal change. the general demand. In fact, geologists have taken the trouble to calculate the probable extent of the coal fields both of this country and the continent of Europe, and have even fixed the period when they will be exhausted. We are allvery clever in our own generation, but we know not what the morrow will bring forth ; while the sages have been puzzling their heads to find a substitute for coal for their grandchildren's great grandchildren, accident has solved the problem. Petroleum, which was disco vered in North America, springing up from the earth, is an oil of a highly inflam mable nature, in fact it is of so gaseous a nature that, like all mineral oils, it is liable to explode when heated. A 9 a matter of course, as soon as the existence of this oil was discovered, companies were formed to " work it," and wells were sunk in favourable localities, to tap, as it were, Nature's head. Indeed some of these ventures were so suc cessful that the workmen stood aghast at the results of their own handiwork, for having struck the vein or artery, or whatever it is called, the oil rushed up to the surface with such force, and in such quan tities that it was impossible to secure it, and hun dreds and thousands of gallons ran to waste. Petro. leum oil has now become a staple of trade, and large quantities are regularly imported into this country. There is, therefore, a very possible sub stitute for coal for our successors. The extent of the supply is, of course, yet hidden from us ; but as we cannot fix a limit, we may safely leave the con sideration of that question to future generations. The American Government, ever alive to the re quirements of the moment, have instituted a com mission to consider whether petroleum oil can be made available for the generation of steam. This committee, in a preliminary report, have informed the United States Government that petroleum oil possesses double the belting power of coal, can be stored in far less space, and is of proportionable lees specific gravity ; but they have not yet ex pressed their opinion on its adaptability for marine engines, wishing to verify their theories by experiment before presenting their report. Petro leum oil is produced in large quantities in Canada . It is surely of as much importance to this country as to America to provide her ships with the most available fuel which can be procured. The Ameri- One of the least obtrusive but certainly one of cans are endeavouring to counteract the dangerous the most appropriate of the festivals which com- elements of this new oil, and render it available for memorated the birth of SHAKEPERE was the their steamers. Why should not the British Admi• "A3tor'a Celebration" last Friday night. As the ralty set experiments on foot to arrive at a similar company assembled shortly after midnight it may result. Surely we are not to wait until a foreign be said that they ware the first to celebrate the Government has made a di'covery and turned it to great occasion. The speeches were characterised advantage, before we set about working for our with great good feeling, and it was a very pleasant selves. In justice to the Board of Admiralty, we idea to associate with the day that so many could must say that they have shown more alacrity in sink prejudices, and banish jealousies, and come taking up the twin screw system than has hereto forward to do honour to the memory of the im- fore characterised their movements. A new launch mortal bard in a spirit worthy of the occasion, is being built for the Bombay, fitted with two Mr. BIICKSTONE proposed "The birth of SHAKE- screws. Now the drawback to pro vidiug ships SPERE," a suggestive subject in itself, and one with steam power is the difficulty found in which in his hands became doubly impressive. stowing sufficient coals for a cruise of any length of Sometimes the mere mention of ordinary everyday time ; but if petroleum oil could be substitu; e d, a occurrences bring before us the relative merits and ship could not only carry four times the quantity important associations of a theme more effectively of fuel which sh e can a t p resen t, ' oat her speed than the grandest sounding words or the most m i g h t b e mater i ally augmented At all events the high-flown phrases. Thus, when Mr. BIICKSTONE experiment is worth tryin.g. The objection which made allusion to the birth of a baby boy in the will naturAlly be raise e l against the substitution of low-roofed room at Stratford-upon-Avon he put petroler.m oil for coals in ships is its inflammable before his hearers a picture of everyday existence nettles and the possibility of explosion. This may simple and commonplace. He then went on to no doubt be hereafter provided against, but until trace the combination of ideas and the train of that time comes, there can be no harm in trying thought in connection with this event, an the experiment upon a few ships' launches, when, emphatically declared c o nc e rnin g the mother's in case of any accident, the boat's crew could pitch feelings that she never dreamt of the immeeetetlity the whole cargo overboard in a few minutßs. In awaiting the littlo stranger, " never thor,g'et that these go-ahead times England ought not to watch that boy would not be of any age but of F a il time— the march of progress, but to lead it. that he who could but murmur inartf cr.late sounds •11.11111~. .1.1.1•11. would live to give a petic and Ir,sti ng lustre to the English tongue it had never known before, and bequeath to England those imperishable plays that have made our country's drama the noblest in the w ()rid," Such thoughts are worthy the occAsion for which they were uttered, and refi.ect great credit on him who so skilfully, yet so s',lmply, put them forward. It is, indeed, most apr2rupriati to consider the blank that would have e,zisted in our language and literature had this irAfant never appeared on the scene, or never liv.ed to strut his hour on the stage of life. Mr. MaCESTONE was also very happy in his allu sion to the unity that appeared among the company, acid the large gathering of English actors was, in deed, a good offering to lay at the shrine before which all were to bow in reverent homage and wor- ship in proud devotion. It was au assembly the like of which bad never been before, and certainly FA better occasion could not have bee❑ found for it. There is nothing more delightful than to witness unity reigning among a band of workers. It is, ho waver, well known that from various unhappy causes the actors, as a body, have never heartily co operated with each other or harmoniously consorted in large bodies. This has been a bright exception to a rule that it was most desirable to break, and it mast ba remarked that the unity which reigned paramount on this festive occasion, found a striking contrast to the want of goodwill and the lack o cordiality which have appeared in some other ar• rangemcnts that were made far the same great oc• casion. Mr. WEBSTER'S speech on the "Irnmorta Memory of Shakspera" was very excellent and en• tirely imbued with the sentiments most fitted for the theme, When he said that the " kingdom o, genius is the greatest inheritance on earth," he spoke of a truth which cannot be too fully recog. nised, and ha gave a glo r iou s ill us t ra ti on in the hero of the hour. What King ever sat in such state as SIIAKSPERE enthroned in the hearts of all man kind ? This is the true way to look on such a subject, and the real and right appreciation of him - - who was indeed " a dear son of memory and a great heir of fame." It is a welcome sight amid the tur- moils of existence to notice these little landmarks on th© way side, which serve t o re f res h an d reani. mate the pilgrim in his course. A meeting like that referred to is a most delightful retrospect, and one that does honour to all concerned. Long will it live in the thoughts and recollections of those who were there, and it is to be trusted that the spirit of unity which then prevailed may live on now the occakion is over, and thus form a most, graceful testimony to the influence of the great departed. If so, a very appropriate recollection will be kept of the time, and the most enduring PRINCESS'S THEATRE, RE-APPEARANCE OF STELLA COLAS. memory will illnmiue the associations of "The hallowed morn when WILL was born In the spring time of the year." In the sixtenth century, when the population of Europe was becoming very considerable, and the forests of necessity gradually fading away, those who took the trouble of considering the possible position of after generations were sorely puzzled as to what they would do for fuel. Although the existence of coal was well known, and its inflammable properties understood, it was never suppoeed that it could be procured in sufficient quantities to meet the requirements of an ever-increasing population. That era passed away, the world seemed to be pro vided with an inexhaustibl e supply of fuel. Again a donut arose, steam machinery and manufactures so increased the demand for the article, that in spite of all the improvements in mining that science could bring to bear, doubts were entertained as to the possibility of procuring, sufficient coal to meet A brilliant audience assembled last evening to welcome Mdlle. Stella Colas Lack to the metropolis. The highly sifted lady made her re-appearance as Juliet, and her whole performance more than confirmed the high opinion we ex pressed of her abilities last season. She is, in fact, the only Juliet that has appeared since the days of Miss O'Neil, be cause we have, in Mdlle. Colas, youth and beauty, accom panied by every elegance of art, heightened by a keen and perceptive intelligence, and united with a reverence for the majestic words and thoughts of her incomparable and im•• mortal author. Honour, high honour to the lady, for though she speaks every line in the text, she delivers them with such grace, taste, and pathos that those which have been looked upon by others as deformities at her hands be come beauties that glitter as they fall. Her foreign tour has somewhat matured her juvenile appearance and strengthened her in health ; but in other respects her acting, if any, is rather increased than diminished in finish and effect, In Mdlle. Colas we have an actress gifted with a vivid, intense, and apprehensive imagination, one intent on giving meaning and intensity to every epithet, and if in rare instances she fails to charm the ear, it is through no fault of her own, but wholly, solely, and entirely through that which time and only time may in some degree efface--viz , her inability to pronounce the English language. It is, however, wonderful that the lady succeeds so well, but if it were otherwise, we are amongst those who would gladly accept her Juliet, because were we to get the pure accent in another, most certainly we should not have a creation half as sweet, gentle, beautiful, and womanly as that of Stella Collas. The balcony scene again created all that enthusiasm and admiration it evoked on her first; ap pearance, and in truth, it must be said, she held her and f ence as spell-bound as her lover Romeo. Her appearance as she breaks through the rosy trellis work to feast her eyes upon her lover was a striking and masterly performance, and one that will long remain impressed upon the memory of every person present. Then, again, her girlish im patience to hear the result of the Nurse's mission to her lover was another fine effect, but the scene in which her acting rises to perfection, is that in which she listens to the project of Friar Lawrence to save her from her hated union with Paris. The applause which followed this fine dramatic effort was immense, and never was the unstinted approbation more richly deserved. Wo can only sum up our admiration by saying that the Juliet of Madlle. Colas is a performance that every lover of Shakspere must witness. We shall not attempt to record the number of "calls" the lady received during her arduous performance, but had they been tenfold she would have de served them all. Mrs. H. Marston's Nurse was worthy of high commendation, but the lady has perception and ability, and therefore she invariably identifies herself with any part she is called upon to sustain. The Mercutio of Mr. Vining has become rather too boisterous. A little moderation would undoubtedly improve it, though yet withal it is a praiseworthy performance, Mr. J. Nelson's Romeo was a complete and utter failure; it was singularly deficient in caste, feeling, and discrimination, and proved most unmis takably that Shakspere is far beyond this gentleman's reach. One would have thought that with such a Juliet some sort of warmth of feeling might have been awakened ; but not in one instance did Mr. Nelson respond to the impassioned and loving outpouring of the sweet and gentle Juliet. Mr. Mellon's Capulet was absurdly ridiculous; and as to Mr. Seyton's Tybalt, it resembled the ravings of a lunatic rather than that of a Venetian gentleman. Mr. Forrester's Friar Law rence was passable, and the same may be said of Mr. D. Fisher's Peter; but certainly the most artistic perform• ance, amongst the male parts, was the Apothecary of Mr. R. Cathcart. The tragedy is to be repeated alternately with Mr. Westland Marston's successful comedy, "Donna Diana," in which Mr. and Mrs. Vezin appear. THE KING OF WUItTEMBURG has given Stntt gardt a zoological gardens and acclimatisation garden, and a grant of 512,500. A LUXURIOUS RAILWAY CARRIAGE.—The Great Eastern Railway Company have just built a magnificent carriage for the use of the Prince and Princess of `Vales in journeying to and from Sandringham, The interior is divided into three compartments---aute-room, saloon, and sitting-room. The length of the saloon, which is the cen tral compartment of the carriage, is 12 feet 6 inches, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [REIITER'S TELEGRAMS.] GENERAL GARIBALDI. PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY, 10.30. A.M. Mr. Norrington, Mayor of Plymouth, and the Deputation, have gone down to Penquite to present the Address from the inhabitants to Garibaldi. The presentation will take plac:e at 1 o'clock, by appointment of the General. THE CONFERENCE. The Memorial Diplornatique and the other Paris papers give the following as the basis for delibera sion which Austria, Prussia, and the German Con- federation propose to bring forward at the Con ference now sitting ; " Integrity of the Danish Monarchy ; " Political and administrative autonomy of the Duchies; " Maintenance of their union in one single State. (nexus socialis); " Rendsburg to be made a German Federal fortress as a guarantee for the autonomy and in divisibility_of the D'aehies.ff THE WAR IN DENMARK. BERLIN, April 25. Yesterday at 12.45 a.m., an engagement took place off the coast of Rugen Island, within view of the Post-house of Wittow, between a Prussian gun boat and the Danish ironclad frigate Fordenskiold. The Danish frigate sailed off, pursued by nine slow sailing Prussian boats, which failed to over• take her. The Fordenskiold was, however, subsequently overtaken by the Guille and set on fi:e, but the Danes succeeded m extinguishing the flames. The Minister of Public Worship has sent Privy Councillor Stiehl to Schleswig to inquire into the condition and wants of the school system in, that Duchy. THE PRINCIPALITIES. BUCHAREST, APRIL 25, The Chamber, after having passed this month all the bills presented by the Government, and recently given the latter a vote of confidence—. to-day passed a vote of censure upon the Govern. meat for the introduction of a rural bill rendering all the peasants lauded proprietors. FRANCE. BOURSE, April 25.—The market has been very heavy, and prices show a slight decline, Threes, For the Account, being now at 66F. 90e. Mobilier has receded to 1,190 f. Railway Market quiet, but with prices pretty well maintained. The market closed as follows : 41 per Cents 94 Do. end month 3 per Cents .....R oG 85 Do. end month..., 66 85 Credit Mobilier.. ~1185 Do. en g d . k n ' ni !' 1185 Bank 3400 Ored ; :. F oncier 1270 ..otnan Re.mi Italian Loan 6B 50 Do. end month 63 70 New ditto Do. end mouth — Russian Austrian Spanish Threes — —. Rome Debt Deferred Cash. Account. 886 25 890 972 50 .. 975 946 25 .. 947 50 895 OW 50 .. 667 50 502 50 5J5 483 75 .. 485 372 50 368 75 417 50 416 25 555 518 75 490 .. 492 50 575 675 -- Orlear s Northern Lyons and M e dit erranean New ditto &lthorn OOO • • Western Eastern . ... Sardinian ... Austrian Lombard North of Spain ........ Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona LAW INTELLIGENCE..--(This Day.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, IN RE DOBSON. This bankrupt had carried on a very extensive business as a lime merchant in Great St, Helen's sill Kingston-on- Hull, against whom a petitioa in bankruptcy was filed a short time since, but the creditors afterwards pa , sed a re solution to wind up the affairs out of court. An application was now made for an order for the bankrupt to furnish cer tain accounts to enable the trustees to carry out the object, and the bankrupt consenting the order was made. RE ROBINS AND PRIEST. Mr, Commissioner Fano vas occupied hoaring further evidence in the case of these bankrupts, auctioneers in St, Martin's lane, and the case was proceeding. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day, THAMES. A SAVAGE.—SImueI Wells, a lighterman, was brought before Mr. Ptget, charged with violently and cruelly assaulting Sarah Wells, hi: wife, and Sarah Cashon, her mother. The prisoner has been married to his wife 13 months. They cohabited with each ether before marriage, and have one child nine month's old. Tho prisoner is very jealous of his wife, and, like all j(alous men, had accused her o infidelity and other offemes of which she was entirely innocent. He beat her aLd blackened her eyes six weeks after the birth of his child. He had beaten her on other occasions. He was in tle practice of calling her very hard nam es , of threateaing her, and being very tyrannical towards her. He came home last night, and after a good deal of abuse and bad language, he beat his wife and struck her on the head with his clenched fist. Mrs Cashon, her metier, went to her assistance, and the brutal ruffian kicked her on the stomach and then seized her arm an d tw i s t e d it. T ie poor woman vas put to great pain and i nconven ien ce, ai d com plained of the pain she was endurin g w hile givi ng h er evidence. The wife sup ported h erse lf an d child , an d wan t e d no assistance from her husband. B ot h wom en declared their liv es were in dan g er. Mr Paget said the prisoner had been guilty of great vio- lence and brutality to his vife and mother-in-law, and was not fit to be at large. He sentenced the prisoner to four months' imprisonment an( hard labour. MAIKE7S—This Day. HAY MARK2TS. SMITHFIELD.. Meadov hay, £3 Os to £ 4 15s Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 15 a Od ; an d r t raw , £1 58 to £1 12s par load. Trade firm. CUMBERLAND.—Mearbw hay £3 Os to £ 4l6s Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 15 3 Od ; an d straw:Xl 53 to £ 1 15s p er loa d , A steady demand. Wit ITECHAPEL --Meadow b a y, £3 Os to £4 15s ; clover £4 Os to £5 15a Od ; ad. straw, £1 5a to £1 15a per load, Supply moderate, COLONIAL. TEA.—Business has been moderately active, and good and fine R qual ities hav3 fully sus tained former rates. " 7 " 2 - - i• rhe marl of has remained rather dull, although full prices are current for good grocery descriptions. In the refined there is very little change to rep ort. COFFEE- - There h as b ee n a very limited in q uir y f or colonial, and quotatims are in m ost instances a shad e flatter. RICE.---Only a limited amoun t of business has been re ported at about l a t e ra t es . TALLOW. —Busi n e s s has been very dull, and owing to the large stocks on hand prices have exhibited a downward tendency. P.Y.C, on the spot is quoted 40s to 40s 3d, and for last threw months' 433 6d per ow:. ..... -•••••''''''' COAL MAR K ET. Prima of Coal per Ton at the close of tho market. Eden Main ..17 G Hastings Hartley ....16 9 Holywell 17 9 Cowpen Hartley 16 9 North Pelton Gas 13 0 Walker Primrose 13 0 Walls End. 8. d. Walls End. East Hartlepool 20 0 Iletton. Harton 17 6 Riddell 17 6 ships at markei lieugh Hall 18 6 South Kelloe 18 6 gaswell ...19 6 Framwellgato ........17 6 South Hetton ...20 0 Stewart's 19 6 Caradoc l9 6 Cassop l9 3 Hartlepool ..20 0 Tunstall Bri:ddyll's Hatton 18 3 59 ; sold, 41. The American papers announce the death of Mr. W. D. Ticknor, the well know Boston publisher. A young Ir',hman, named Waters, was shot dead in the streets of New York, the other day, whil e attempting to desert. AMERICAN FUNERAL,—An American paper gives au account of the funeral of the wife of General Beaurec, , ard, and says :—" After Catholic service at the house, the Ludy was to be carried to the family tomb of the Des London, on their plantation, some 30 miles above New Orleans. When the coffin was placed on the magnificent funeral car, the procession was formed of women. It was a mile long. Not a carriage was allowed, and the first ladies in No .v Orleans walked in precession to the boat, They were the very elite of the city. There was scarcely a man in the procession —there were many present, but they walked apart," LITERATURE, George Meredith's New Work, Emilia in England. By George Meredith. Three vols. Chapman and Hall. "Emilia in England" is a book to be read with a relish. It is flavoured with the salt of wit. It is the work of a true Artist, and—better still than that, according to our notion of things—it is the work of a genuine and delightful Humorist. For, very cordially indeed do we, go with our author himself where he insists—he is destant in at the moment upon The Pitfall of Senti ment—that man is, par excellence, the Laughing Animal : "and," says he, "at the end of en infinite search, the philoQpher finds himself clinging to laughter as the best of human fruit, purely human, and sane, and comforting." Nay, we are fain to continue our quotation with a very especial application of the writer'tj own words to himself. "So, let us o© cordially thankful to those [George M eredith is assuredly one of theml who t u:aish matter for found, embracing laughter." It is some few years ago, now, since the writer of these three volumes first took our admiration by storm with a burst of this very laughter—sound and embracing—purely human, aed sane, and com forting. This, namely, was when he made his first appearance as a Humorist, bearing in his hand the strangest, wildest, most fantastic apologue that surely mortal man ever conceived, to wit, " The Shaving of Shagpat"—hight an Arabian (cer tainly, judging from our own experiences, a tho roughly English) Entertainment. Since then the author of that " Shaving of Shagpat" has made more signal and conspicuous advances in the cultivation of aa hat is, at once, his rare art and his rare gift as a Humorist than even his most sanguine, or rather, it should rather be said, his most confiding appre ciators could at the outset have anticipated. His audience, probably, even now, is rather select than wide—but it will widen! As surely, indeed, as his vin human sympathies and, for that matter also, his own highly cultivated intellectual powers, have all this while been widening into a fuller and more perfect m3stery over his art as a Novelist. Among the most original writers of fiction in our time—an age, too, notable for its great novelists—Mr. Meredith, though we believe one of the youngest, certainly one of the latest comers amongst them, has already assumed to himself a distinguished position—one that, estimated by the mere rate of its advance, ap- . _ pears to be securing for him the certainty of a per manent reputation in our literature. Among our younger writers we know not anyone who applies himself to the cultivation and development of his powers more thoroughly or, we might even say it, more conscientiously. Aa yet, each work of his has been an improvement upon its predecessor. And that of itself, surely, is something. That of itself is an attestation that the anthor, in his character as an Artist, is perpetually bent upon applying his powers to the utmost possible advantage—so writing throughout that he, himself, is manifestly the most fastidious of his critics. Stage by stage in the onward progress of his career as Novelist, he has So unmistakably risen, by steadily pursuing the road he, himself, at the outset deli. berately selected as the one he would traverse by preference, that at each pause, so to speak, two indications of the ascent are distinctly appre ciable—a purer atmosphere is breathed, and the horizoa is enlarged. Three by three, Mr. Meredith has already in a very few years contributed nine volumes to our imaginative literature. And nine volumes, not merely of atory, but of literature. "The Ordeal of Richard Feveroll" was, after its fashion, as much of an advance upon " The Shaving of Shagpat" as the history of the Ordeal itself was surpassed in human scope, so to Break, and diversi. y of character by the record of the adventures (in search of a position) experienced by Evan Harring ton, or rather, by Evan's three aspiring sisters, the most aspiring amongst them all being that won derful creature, the Countess. Here, again, in his new work of fiction, "Emilia in England,' Mr. Meredith appears to us to have advanced far beyond the position he assumed as the writer of Evan Harrington." Strangely enough, as in that novel, Three Sisters, though none of them the Heroine of the tale, are conspicuous among the foremost of the female characters introduced. Three sisters, they are, moreover, who, like those of Ex see Harrington, are yearning body and soul to rise in lite —that is, in social position. Other wise, however, the two works are as entirely different as can well be im agined. Emieia Belloni—in some respects the most admirable creature of George Meredith's imagina tion—is as far beyond Rose Jocelyn, as a heroine as the book itself, "Emilia in England," as a work of art, surpasses " Evan Harington." Here, in "Emilia in England," the Misses Pole are the three sisters—Pole, Polar, and North Pole, as they are not unwilling themselves to be designated— Pole, Polony, and Maypole, as they are cruelly dubbed to their exceedng asguish by those vexa tious neighbours of theirs, the Tinsleys—horrid vulgarians ! They, the Poles, that is, are the daughters of a City of London Merchant, about whose solvency the reader is kept in doubt— sometimes even (in the very crises of the story) in a very agony of doubt—throughout the narrative. Wilfrid, the only son of this Merchant-Prince, or Merchant• Beggar (we hardly know which it is to be until the very end), ie the Young Lover of the story—the lover, that is, of Emilia Belloni, the Emilia who is in England. He is the lover also of Lady Charlotte. In other words, he is, all through the work, a sort of a young Macheath of a Guards man—and you feel, alternately, as you read about his loves and bewilderments, "how happy could he be with either, were t'other dear charmer away." Now protesting his passion for Emilia, now for Lady Charlotte. As to his sisters, again —each of them has a story, a love -story or a flirtation of her own, Cornelia, Arabella, and Adele. A sentimental Bero net is refrigerated by the first of them (the North Pole) into suicide. The other two find their coquet ries terminate without even the questionable result in either instance, of a long engagement. The broader fun of tie story is derived froth the ap• pearanoes put in, every now and then, all through the three volumes by a Greek lunatic about music, one Mr. Pericles, and a wonderful Irish widow (the broad comedy of the book), one Mrs. Chump. A good-natured, fat, vulgar specimen of a genuine Celtic parvenu, talking (so capitally!) not simply Irish, but as Adele wickedly exc , aims, in an agony of shame Irish steeped in brine— pickled Irish ! Here is a momentary glimpse of the bitter anguish of suppressed laughter that poor little Mrs. Lupin (who is eillicted with an intense sense of the ludicrous) is - subjected to (before cempany) by the absurdities of Mrs. Chump and her stupendous dialect 1 " The poor lady was affected so keealy that, in instances where one of her sex and position in the social mile is bound to perish rather than let even the shadow of a laugh appear, or any sign of fleshly perception or sympathy peep out, she was seen to be mutely, shockingly, penitentially convulsed—a degrading sight." Excellent is the covert drollery dexterously kept up by . our author all through the work, like a very fluttering shuttlecock of ridicule, about the Nice Feelings and the Fine Shades. His affected alter cation, too, with that other (inner) self of his, The Philosopher,is in its wage something quite inimitable! But, as exemplars of George Meredith at his very best as a Humorist, commend us to those glorious, side-splitting delineations by him of the beery clubmen down at Brookfield—to his delightful re port of Tom Breaks' effort at oratory—to his report of Tom's strenuous but futile:attempt to lug in by the head and shoulders the application of the apologue of the Bundle of Sticks, or finally to his Homeric account of Tom's having led on against him and his followers, later on, upon that same day, of the rival clubmen, those irate clubmen, who sally forth to indulge the foe with a tastelof music to the tune, as one of them comically puts it, of "whack fol 10l !" Mr. Meredith, too, is wonderfully worth while listening to when he is gravely descanting upon the Virtues Residing in a Tail Coat, or indulg ing in a philosophical disquisition upon the diverse modes of wearing a hat ! Some, at least, among these most exhilarating indications of his rare powers as a humorist, we must needs transfer to our columns, if only as a whiff of the laughing gas here stored up in as marvellous abundance, considering the narrowness of the space, as even the bulk of the Geni who was stowed away in the brass pot fished up out of the great deep by the Arabian fisherman. Here then is a fragment of the record preserved to:us by Mr. Meredith :in regard Tom Breeks stuck in the mud With the Bundle of Sticks ; A cry of "Bundle o' sticks, Tom Breeks, Don't let slip 'bout bundle o' sticks," pulled epdkesman up short. He turned hurriedly to say, "All right," and inflated his chest to do justice to the illustration of the faggots of sop; but Mr. Tom Breeks had either taken in too much of the ale that had hitherto+ successfully prompted him s'fltB antipathetic to the nice delicacy of afi apolbgde; for now his arm began to work and his forehead had to be mopped, and he lashed the words "Union and Harmony" right and left, until, coming on a sentence that sounded in his can like the close of his speech, he stared ahead, with a cairn iNea thgt he had missed a point. "Bundle o' sticks," lustily shouted, revived his apprehension: but the sole effect was to make him look on the ground and lift his hat on the point of a perplexed finger. He could not conceive how the bundle of sticks was to be brought in now ; or what to say concerning them. Union and Harmony : What more could be said ? Mr. Tom Breeks tried a re monstrance with his backers. He declared to them that he had finished, and had brought in the Bundle. They replied that they had not heard it; that the Bundle was the foundation-sentiment of the Club; the first sentiment after the Crown; and that he must go on till the Bundle had been brought in. Hereat, the unhappy man faced Squire Pole again. It was too abject a position for an English man to endure. Tom Breeks cast his hat to earth. " I'm dashed if I can bring in the Bundle I" Hardly anyone who has ❑ot read the the context can conjecture the fun there is, moreover—the rare, bright-eyed fun sunning every syllable of the fol lowing record by our novelist of the way in which 'the rival club carry off, with cheers, and a march, and an impromptu parody, the sense of having been outwitted by Tom Breeks and his fellows: outwitte that is to obtaining largess (otherwise beer money) from Mr. Pole on the lawn at Brookfield. Uncon scious of having been anticic4)ated or forestalled— Their case was stated : whereupon Mr. Pole told them that he had just been "milked," and regretted it, but re quested them to see that he could not possibly be equal to any second proceeding of the sort. On their turning to consult together, he advised them to bear it with fortitude. " All right, sii I" they said : and a voice from the ranks informed him that their word was " Jolly." Then a signal was given, and these indomitable fellows cheered the lord of Brookfield as lustily as if they had accomplished the feat of milking him twice in an hour. Their lively hurrahs set him blinking in extreme discomposure of spirit, and he was fumbling at his pocket, when the drum a little precipitately thumped : the ranks fell into order, and the departure was led by the tune of the "King of the Cannibal Islands :" a tune that is certain to create a chorus on the march. On this occasion, the line : " Oh! didn't you know you were done, sir!" became general at the winding up of the tune. Boys with their elders frisked as they chimed it, casting an emphasis of infinite relish on the declaration " done ;" as if they de lighted in applying it to Mr. Polo, though at their own expense. Soon a verse grew up : " We march'd and call'd on Mister Pole, Who hadn't a penny, upon his soul, For Ipley came and took the whole, And didn't you know you were done, sir I" I need not point cut to the sagacious that Hill ord and not Mr. Pole had been "done ;" but this was the genius of the men who transferred the opprobrium to him, Never theless, th;,ugh their manner of welcoming misfortune was such, I, knowing that ;there is not a deadlier animal than a "done" Briton, have shudders for Ipley, Apart from the delightful atmosphere breathed through the whole story—its pervading atmo spere, ilia is of the racily, refreshingly, hilariously, genially, irresistibly humorous—the tale has many subtle beauties of its own that will cause " Emilia in England" to live long in its reader's recollection. Emilia's one rare and priceless gift, her Voice, is therein for one thing most exquisitely celebrated. And so for that mat ter, in the third volume, is her ripened beauty, more especially where she is described as perfecting that loveliness of hers by donning the purple velvet dress in which the natural glory of her beauty became yet further glorified by art ! We commend the portraiture of her in that dress to some one among our !luster Painters, to some one amongst them, that is, who has a subtler sense than the rust of consummate Bedury whether of Colour, Form, or Expression. It, is suggestive of a com panion picture to the late Augustus Egg's glowing deiineltion of Eimond girded with the scarf by the Beatrix of Thackeray. As we close '° Emilia in England—the last volume of which appears to us, by the way, wonderfully inferior in every respect (among other things, for example, in the constructioo of the plot and in the very style of the writing) to both the first or the second—as we close the book we count upon a sequel to it. By the whole con struction of the story, indeed, we cannot but think that a sequel to it is, we might even go so far as to say, just absolutely necessitated. And we cer tainly shall look for that sequel at the hands of Mr. Meredith. During the last few days there has not been much animation in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets. Sugar, however, has fully supporeed previous prices ; coffee, on the other hand, has been at rather lower rates, owing to the large arrivals. In rice, fruit, and spices, there has been an average amount of business reported, without any material change in prices, while in tallow business has been inactive, and quotations for both present and for ward delivery show a downward tendency. The demand for monetary accommodation has been slightly increased today by the arrangements in preparation for the approaching settlement at the Stock Exchange. The supply of floating capital in the open market is, however, well maintained, and the rates therefore continue at 65- per cent. for the negotiation of the best slatort dated securities. About 60,000 sovereigns were withdrawn from the Bank yesterday for transmission to Alexandria. TOM BROWN FOR FINSBURY.—We understand that a number of the electors of Finsbury, a borough which via be vacated by Sir Morton Peto's retire ment, have requested Mr. Hughes to stand on the Liberal side. if the statement is true it will be the most creditable thing the borough has done for years, for Mr. Hughes will neither job for the electors, latter them, nor swallow their pledges. He is a strong Liberal, or rather Radical—one o those who think that our next business is to fight pauperism, and a man with a real care for the working classes, if Finsbury has the intelligence to accept such a nomination, and send " Tom Brown" to Parliament, it will have done at least something to wards making educated men believe that big boroughs know how to choose represen tatives.—Spectator. On the morning of the deport are of the Emperor and Empress of Mexico from Rome, the Pope con ferred on the latter the Grand Cross of the Order of Pius IX. The Emperor gave the Mexican Order of Notre-Dame do Guadelupo to General de Monte bello. The Emperor has received a letter from the Queen of Spain, notifying the death of her nephew, the Infante Don Felipe Ramon-Marie, son of the Duke and Duchess de Montpensier. TRIALS ON CHARGES OF MURDER AT GLASGOW.— On Saturday, at the Glasgow Circuit Court, Lord Dees presiding, an Irishman named John Riley was charged with murder. It appeared that on the night of Monday, the 17th December last, on the Biggar-road, in the parish of Bothwell, the prisoner assaulted Nancy Stevens, or Laffy wife of Thomas Laffy, collier, residing at Legbrannock, in the parish of Bothwell, and with a wooden stake or atone, struck her a number of severe blows on the head, face, neck, cheat, hands, and arms. and threw her on the ground and kicked her with his feet. He then thrust a piece of wood several times into her person. She died in conse quence of her injuries. The prisoner, in a firm voice, pleaded not guilty, and a jury being ernpanuelled the case wont to trial. The prisoner was defended by Mr. C. T. Couper and Mr. Crawford, After a trial which lasted from 10 in the forenoon till about 10 minutes past one on Sunday morning, the jury returned with a verdict finding by a majority tha prisoner guilty as charged. Sentence was delayed. At the same court, on Saturday, Lord Neaves presiding, a joiner named Peter Blair was accused of murder. On Tuesday, Feb. 23 last, in Maitland-street, Cowcaddens, he assaulted Jessie Noble, or Gordon, or Blair, then residing with him in Debbie's Loan, and with a knife stabbed her on the left side of her neck and right shoulder ; she was mortally wounded, and imme diately, or soon thereafter, died. The prisoner, who pleaded Not Guilty, was defended by Thos. Watson, sen., and Mr. Wm. Inglis, jun. After a lengthened trial the jury re turned a verdict unanimously finding the prisoner guilty of culpable homicide, and he was sentenced to 15 years' penal servitude, ‘,„c, 011,111 at lIER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, April 25. The Qaeen walked and drove in the grow:ldg this morning. To-day is the birthday of her Royal H i p h nesg Princess Louis of Hesse. The Earl of Clarendon has returned to London. Tho Duke and Duchess of Northumberland have deferred their departure fromAlnwiok Castle, Northumber land, for a few days in consequence of the noble dupe baring been suddenly taken by an attack of gout. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll arrived at their villa at Campthm-hill yesterday from visiting th e Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland at Cliefden, near Maid en. head, The Duchess of Somerset and Lady Gmendolia. Somerset arrived at the First Lord's official re sideno 86 the Admiralty yesterday afternoon from Bulstrode pang' Bucks. The Duchess of Sutherland returned to Stsffora House last evening from Cliefden, the Duchess (DoWager) of Sutherland's seat, near Maidenhead, Yesterday evening Baron de Biegelben, the r e. presentative of Austria, arrived at Claridge's Hote l, in order to attend the Conference. ig The Earl and Countess of Erne have arrived Eaton-square from the Continent. The Earl and Countess of Gosford entertairird at dinner on Friday, the 22d inst., Lady Charlotte Deolsell' Countess of Tankerville, Earl and Countess of Leicester' Ladies Coke (2), Hon, Miss Ellis, Marquis of Orroondet Earl of Tyrone, Viscount Powerscourt, Lord liensiugterl' the Hon. Lieut.-General Ashburnham, the Hon. Char t e r elements, d:c. Her ladyship received a small party dinner, The Earl and Cuuntesa of Yarborough 13618 arrivd in Arlington-street, Piccadilly, from their fO'' Brooklesby Park, Lincolnshire. ou Viscountess Palmerston will have a recept ion Saturday evening next at Cambridge House. 1 Viscount and Viscountess Castlerosse and fay° have arrived at Eaton-place for the season. hei r Lord and Lady Tredegtir have arrived at t residence in Portman-square from Tredegar Per's Monmouthshire. Lord Houghton has returned to Landon fr oo ' ill tour in Northern Italy. Lady Macdonald Lockhart and family h ave 9r rived in Grosvenor-crescent from Lee CA 9tiej Lanark, N,B. Mr. and Lady Mary Craven have left Thoulosii Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Newmarket. ' se Sir Francis and Lady Stapleton and the N' ll6 Stapleton have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeler square. at Sir George and Lady Jenkinson have arrived ad 44, Bryanston-square, from their seat, Eastiv° 9 park, Gloucestershire. The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the E 5c138 quer and Mrs. W. E. Gladstone returned to theft residence on Carlton-house terrace, yesterday ° re ; noon, from staying during the visit of G oner 's Garibaldi at the Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland seat, Ciiefden, near Maidenhead. THE PRINCESS Louisa OF WILD died at Ne"-„vv led on the 18th, at the advanced age of ninety-two I THE EX-PREMIER, THE EARL OF DERBY, 0 : was, on Saturday last, elected President of the Royal C° mission for the Exhibition of 1851, in place of the ,-; " Prince Consort. THE MARQUIS OF EXETER, on the 19th of ?` lf 7; will entertain 1,000 volunteers of Northampton, at Bu r g hley t'ark. Mr. Alfred Wigan as Hamlet, The Liverpool Daily Post publishes the following criticism on Mr. Wigan's impersonation of 1 481331e 0 at the Prinee of Wales's Theatre, Liverpool' I) , t Friday night—'• While Mr. Wigan's Hamlet 0 111- 1 necessarily, like all othere, fall short of one's i dea there are scarcelyany that can contest the P l ' . „l with it. It was once said by a clever periotilel critic in the New York Vanity Fair' that to P r ie. l : o comedy well a man should be a tragedian• saying seems a paradox, but it is not far feonl truth ; and as a companion to it, we assert wi.tb °ll o qualification that no mere tragedian can touch tb o part of Hiinlet, and that an excellent comedian . 6 r , some of the prime essentials for distinction i n 4 1 H imlet is the glass of fashion and the mould of He is pleasant with those before whom he does 13° 0 affr,ct madness, and jocose even with those wP cr ii he would deceive into thinking him insane. H e segnificantly respectful to his stepfather, since ° a tender to his mother, _Even the poor players ° e in him a cheerful and chatty friend, and ever t i t , e e sneakishness of Rosencrantz and Guildenstein (I ' o ' not provoke him unto unkindness towards 0 %4, How great then is the necessity for the lieltc„a softest acting, replete with the genuine s pirit l im o tact of comedy and mobile in the utmost degr f i l , o f give expression to the constantly varying det ai ' , g ut the text. Such an actor is Mr. Alfred W i o and all the lees serious passages of the play seed, up by his lively, gay, and brilliant idiosynorflo But this, though an important element in it ; impersonation, is, after all, a mere fringe t ° e st for the essence of Hamlet is, of course, his g r sorrow and his overmastering impulse Of 3 „ venge. Whatever may be his passing occa o r tion or subject of converse at the mention r thought of his father's death, he must begone ° a ( cited to the verge of losing self-control ; and'' o f course, the more exciting incidents of the Pig g f, necessity plunge him into almost limitless free ' Here, then, we perceive two requirements for o e actor of Hamlet almost equally imperative. 1 0 ; he Mr. Wigan is not yet what he might be. op o other he possesses more remarkably than Pt° r ` be any other Hamlet. At the close of the Piec e s o exhibited a free abandon of grief which woul d LL .iti raised the soliloquy in the second act very rntl el a sl our opinion, but as a rule the tumultously ettl° 6° ., q ' nt passages were not given with sufficient power Y eg the more subtle effects of voice and face in pas s;g c less directly concerning his father's death and it B sequences were produced with a vigour, an inters ® to and a thrillingness which we do not remember 0 , 0 nave seen equalled. In the middle of another Fel l ' l o g speech some far - off allusion would suffice 9 b r mio Mr. Wigan's face an expression of wad e r pie agony and perplexity, and the modifications ° L o f voice and accentuation under various degre e D o t mental suffering are exceedingly fine. We Wi li n z r it enter into details. With this key to th e • „ s oli of the performance our readers may 1116 obtain by glancing at the play a fair idea oo t. manner in which each portion of it was carri ed "The fifth act was a noble culmination. Mr.W i g r jo g fencing was splendid, and his visible 011,13e0.061 from his wound, and the various details of }ll6 hat conversation with thee e about him, containe d t ha t we consider a welonne importation fr° 133 .0 8 0 French school of melodvama in which Alr• ethet has long been a celebrateal licentiate, Aitogi h Hamlet is exceedingly fine and poaver fil o t, a that on the first attempt he should attain e j j -- horoug high point of excellence is pro of how t his 61.1 ' master he is of everything connected with FOUND DROWNED.—An s- inquesrW a ; ir h b e a la rt: llo Leominster, evening last, at the Red Li , on , orefadi m ,r i L ns o t n e d r o , n b . efo F re ro l‘ m lr. w Lc h t a n t ware James Skaggs, of No. 3, Surrey'coroner,clortir place. Sven er the coron , transpired b t 111)°r1 the body it appeared that the deceased, in eoria e °r\ewith his 04° 4 to t h L is ondon about three weeks or a moPnatuhYage ill• sen 61 v: i s l i t father-in-law, Mr Speake, of Cheney ..coar l t e ll he was Shropshire. On the evening of the sth of the pre sen t h° s missed from Cheney , and on its being known. thatoo el• had about £lO in his posse Lon, and also ahands°l326' Ltd watch and chain, some fears were entertained that be '"' ~ become the victim of foul treatment. Bills were cirularoca and a reward offered for any information respecting of . The discovery of a blue velvet cap upon the bank °. ,, t , 0 13(3 river Lugg, about two miles belowLeominster, Oa th, r e 8 7:i distance from the spot where the body of Count d° v Y i ;_ z ,,,, was found last year, led to the supposition that the 0 might be i w n e t r h o e fi L u u it g l g es . , Drags l Fraidnadyboats were then employed in dragging for the body were resting it the water Ford's bridge, when looking in the direction ot they saw what appeared to be the body of a w an g ett Le, identified as t floating down the stream. It Wes at once body of M r skeggs. There was found upon the body about £6 Jr £7 in gold and a gold watch and chain it bore 00 marks of violence. There was no evidence produced hefer obtained, but_ the coroner to show how deceasedmgirtnil :I: rTilleP. verdict was pronounced of "FouDd drownedt"